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天胆A頭 Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes


The 天胆A頭 Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes
2024 – 2025

天胆A頭 Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes are deisgned toengage small groups of U.S. based medical students in thought-provoking, dynamic conversations, as well as issue education, and hands-on clinical skill-building, with key experts working in abortion care, reproductive health and education, research, or reproductive and social justice. 天胆A頭 will be hosting a number of Institutes during 2024-2025.

Successful applicants will receive stipend reimbursements油to cover their travel expenses.
All meals, on-site training supplies, and transportation油to the retreat location are provided at no cost.

Those on the waiting list will receive notification prior to opening the application to general membership.

天胆A頭 Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes will be held in private retreat-like settings nestled in nature yet easily accessible locations. The Institutes are designed to provide deep dive opportunities to build knowledge, skills, and connections in a supportive, nurturing and Love-centered community, with a focus on finding and connecting with joy as we work on challenging issues facing our communities and future practice as physicians. Learning opportunities will include a clinical油skill-building MVA papaya workshop and values-clarification training, along with:
  • effective messaging communications,
  • networking and advocacy training,
  • building power and your circles of influence,
  • identifying and engaging reproductive freedom champions in your state, and
  • values-based research and using data to make change.

to add your name to the priority waiting list for our next Institutes.油

The program begins on Thursday evening with a group dinner and ends after breakfast on Sunday morning.油油In addition to didactic and clinical workshop-style learning, there will be ample time for informal conversations, delicious meals and snacks, walking in the woods, star-gazing, and relaxing in the hot-tubs and around the fire. Each participant will have their own bedroom, some bathrooms will be shared. Meals are prepared together along with clean-up.油

Institute participants will receive a variety of take-home resources and assistance to organize 1 or more local events. Local events could include, but are not limited to: clinical skills-building, networking and advocacy training, issue education, understanding state reproductive health policies, and values-based messaging and research.

天胆A頭 Reproductive Health Elective


天胆A頭 Elective in Abortion Care, Family Planning & Reproductive Justice (non-clinical)

FALL 2024 & WINTER 2025
1 credit P/F Electives – Seats Limited

A virtual, credit-bearing elective for US and international medical students (all years), residents, fellows, and graduate public health students who are passionately interested in developing and deepening their knowledge and skills in abortion care, family planning, and reproductive justice.
Fall 2024 Elective: Monday, September 23 – Friday, October 4, 2024
Registration Closed

Winter 2025 Elective: Monday, January 20 – Friday, January 31, 2025
All sessions will be held from
1:00pm – 3:00pm ET via Zoom

No in-person components, this elective is conducted fully online,
and may be taken for credit, or audited (not for credit).

Program Description:

Developed in partnership between the油油and the油, this virtual elective for U.S. and international medical students (in particular, medical students pursuing family medicine or ob/gyn) will center Reproductive Justice (RJ) as a human-rights framework for exploring topics related to reproductive health and abortion care, including approaches to RJ-informed and trauma-informed patient care. The course will present reproductive health education with a focus on the interconnections of power, privilege, oppression, and resistance. Students will engage with critical social theories including Critical Race Theory, Intersectional Feminism, and Queer Theory to explore, interrogate, and reflect on the complex sociocultural, medico-legal, and politico-economic context of sexual and reproductive health.

The program is grounded in a pedagogy of liberatory education (Paulo Freire; bell hooks), and in a commitment to practicing an ethics of Love-centered educational care for adult learners that help us create and sustain deeper relationships within intentional communities.

This course will cover healthcare delivery including family planning and abortion care in a post-Roe reality. Even though this is a non-clinical elective, we will significantly incorporate approaches to patient care that are loving and affirmative of the universal human right to bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity, with a focus on correcting and repairing medicine’s ethical failures to honor the bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity of women and femme people generally, and especially Indigenous and Black women, and queer and trans people.

Themes & Topics:

  • Reproductive Justice: Framework, definitions, and herstory
  • Historical Injustices and Todays Crises: The continuous thread of scientific and medical racism and sexism in Reproductive Health and abortion care
  • Family Planning and Abortion Care: Options counseling, values clarification, medication and procedural abortion, messaging and framing
  • Her Stories of Resistance: Honoring those who fight back, speak up, and labor to get free
  • Power and Control in Reproductive Health & Abortion Care: Religion, morality, masculinity and medicine who gets to claim the right to shape reality
  • Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice: Access, disparities, and structural competency
  • Reproductive Health Law and Policies: At the intersection of medicine and law, patient and community, care and advocacy
  • Affirmative Patient Care: Sexual and reproductive healthcare for LGB+, trans, queer, and non-binary people
  • Human-centered Care: Professional humility, trauma-informed sensitivity, cultural safety, and non-violent communication
For more information email Dr. Jeff Koetje (jkoetje@amsa.org),油Dr. Aliye Runyan (arunyan@amsa.org),油and Dr. Charisse Loder (loder@med.umich.edu).

天胆A頭 Reproductive Health Mentorship Sprints


粥珂皆粥sReproductive Health Mentorship Sprintis designed to pair interested mentors and mentees for a structured 4-week mentorship experience to discuss topics like:

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Gender and racial justice in sexual/reproductive healthcare and primary care
  • Preparing for residency and ensuring access to training in family planning and abortion care
  • Career opportunities for clinical practice focused on family planning, abortion care, and primary care
  • The effects of public policy on reproductive health clinical care
  • Work-life balance as physician, addressing moral injury, and mitigating risk of personal harm as an abortion provider
  • Health advocacy as a physician-activist
  • Research interests in reproductive health(care), rights, and justice

Eligible applicants (current medical students) will be paired by their indication of interest in the above topics and a few other factors. Wellmatch you with a mentor/mentee with similar interests, and well provide resources to guide you through four mentoring sessions, one per week as explained further below.油

Fall 2024 Sprint Applications are Closed – Stay Tuned for the Next Sprint!

天胆A頭 Reproductive Health Scholars Program


天胆A頭 Reproductive Health Scholars Program
Fall 2024 – Now Closed

天胆A頭 strives to empower physicians-in-training to effect change through education and advocacy. 天胆A頭 Scholars Programs are designed to provide medical and premed students with information not covered in traditional medical school curriculum and to foster an online learning community of future physicians.

The 天胆A頭 Reproductive Health Scholars Program addresses the hidden curriculum in medical school and prepare students to think critically about abortion-related and education and training opportunities. At the end of the program, participants develop a project utilizing the knowledge gained from the course. The projects are an application of their new skills, as well as a professional development opportunity in the participants school or community. Throughout the experience, participants gain valuable mentorship from their Course Directors, fellow Scholars, and partner organizations to enhance their projects.

Topics this program addresses:

  • Diversity & Equity in Abortion Access & Our Healthcare Workforce
  • Basic Clinical Overview of First & Second Trimester Abortion
  • Protecting Reproductive Health: State & Federal Laws that Impact Access & Care
  • Reproductive Justice: Framework & Advocacy
  • Options Counseling & Values Clarification in Reproductive Care
  • Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, & Choice
  • When Routine Training is Unethical & Becomes Illegal: The Case of Intimate Exams for Teaching Purposes

For more information please email rhp@amsa.org

Note: Students attending an international medical schools who are either U.S. citizens or intend to practice in the US may register with the understanding our program focus is on U.S. abortion policy and practice and is not designed to address policy or practice outside the U.S.

Register by October 6